Adjusting brightness and contrast

In this segment, we're going to continue on with our Yukon Working Scape image,…where we have in the previous section set the highlight and the shadow.…We want to continue on and talk about setting brightness and contrast in our images.…When we set our highlights and shadows, particularly if we have neutral areas in our…image like the neutral white highlight.…We did our Curves adjustment on the individual layers.…When we come in and do overall brightness and contrast on our image,…we're going to work with the Master RGB curve.…Typically, the way we'll do this is we're going to make our brightness…adjustment here in the midtone.…

One of the reasons for this is one of things you need to be aware of when we…talked about dot gain earlier,…just in general, images tend to print darker than they appear on screen unless…you have 100% color managed workflow.…So in general, I typically and you'll probably want to typically brighten your images.…The question is how much. Well, let's start.…We're in the RGB, the master surve.…

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5/4/2010

In Photoshop CS5: Prepress and Printing, author Taz Tally shows how to prepare Photoshop files for a wide variety of printing devices, including offset printing presses, digital presses, wide format, large gamut inkjet printers, and toner-based printers. This course covers image adjustments, color mode conversions, and selecting the right format for print, as well as assigning and building colors to achieve desired print colors and using automation to streamline the prepress workflow. Exercise files accompany the course.